38 THE AZALEAS OF THE OLD WORLD 



original plant are in the Holm Lea collection to this day. In England it appears 

 to have been lost to cultivation until plants were sent to Kew and elsewhere from 

 Holm Lea by Professor Sargent. 



Rhododendron Kanehirai Wilson, n. sp. 



Frutex ramosissimus, 1-2.5 m. altus; rami graciles, ramulosi, juveniles pilis 

 compressis castaneis adpressis vestiti. Folia petiolata, dimorpha; vernalia sparsa, 

 lineari-lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 2-5 cm. longa, 0.5-1.5 cm. lata, acuta, 

 glanduloso-mucronulata, basi attenuata, obscure crenato-serrata, supra atrovi- 

 ridia, subtus pallida, utrinque pilis lucide brunneis strigosis adpressis vestita, 

 venis supra impressis; folia aestivalia in apice ramulorum aggregata, lineari- 

 oblanceolata vel anguste obovata, 1.5-3 cm. longa, 0.2-0.6 cm. lata, apice acuta 

 vel rotundata, ceterum ut vernalia; petioli 1-5 mm. longi, dense pilis compressis 

 castaneis adpressis vestiti. Flores terminales, bini vel raro solitarii, carminei vel 

 ecarlatini; pedicelli robusti, erecti, 5-8 mm. longi, dense pilis castaneis strigosis 

 vestiti; calyx plerumque bene evolutus; lobi virides, erecti, rotundati vel ovales, 

 1-5 mm. longi, 1-2 mm. lati, pilis adpressis lucide castaneis ciliati; corolla anguste 

 infundibuliformis, 2.5-4 cm. longa et 2-2.5 cm. lata, glabra; stamina 10, ineaqualia, 

 corolla breviora, filamentis gracilibus infra medium papillose pubescentibus, an- 

 theris 1-1.5 mm. longis; ovarium dense pilis cinereis vel castaneis strigosis ob- 

 tectum; stylus gracilis, 3-4 cm. longus, ad basin pilis paucis compressis strigosis 

 instructus, stigmate parvo capitato. Fructus non visus. 



Formosa: prov. Taihoku, Urai, in a garden at the police station, 

 April 1, 1918, E. H. Wilson (No. 10,276). 



This new species is closely related to R. indicum Sweet, which is distinguished 

 chiefly by its smaller leaves, rather larger, usually solitary flowers, its 5 stamens 

 with anthers from 2 to 3 mm. long and by its stouter and glabrous style. The 

 chief morphological difference is the number of stamens, and it may eventually 

 prove that this new species is a decandrous variety of the old Linnean plant. I 

 saw it in the garden mentioned above and was told that the plants had been brought 

 from the higher slopes of the surrounding mountains. It is distinct from anything 

 else I have seen and apparently has nothing to do with any of the species described 

 by Hayata. The flowers vary in color from carmine-red to scarlet. 



Rhododendron breviperulatum Hayata, Icon. PI. Formos. III. 129 

 (1913). Kanehira, Formos. Trees, 318, fig. 16 (1917). Komatsu in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXXII. [14] (1918). 



Formosa : prov. Nanto, Horisha, planted in Hotel garden, December 

 6, 1918, E. H. Wilson (No. 11,206). 



This red-flowered Azalea is well characterized by its 5 stamens and its pilose 

 style; also by its leaves, which are oblong to oblanceolate or more rarely oblong- 

 ovate, with no conspicuous difference between those of the spring and summer. 

 The calyx-lobes are membranous, reddish, from 3 to 4 mm. long, ciliate and pilose 

 without, glabrous within. The corolla is from 2.5 to 3 cm. long and broad; the 

 Stamens are nearly as long as the corolla and have rather large purple anthers. 

 The young shoots and leaves are clothed with red-brown to gray appressed hairs. 

 The plants my specimens came from were from 1 to 1.5 cm. tall and had rather 

 slender branches. I was told that they had been brought from the neighboring 

 mountains. 



